random jotts

with my quals over last thursday, life is kind of back to normal. i cleaned the house, arranged stuff and put out all the trash which had been collecting for quite some time. still no roomie, and now with nothing much to do - feel more alone at home than before. so mostly passed time watching movies - went to catch a telugu movie at the univ - had some homemade mirchi bajjies there. the movie sucked but having camel light smoke in the interval was really nice, especially with it raining outside.

also saw - star trek the search for spock, a korean movie - bad guy, and a vietnamese movie - the vertical ray of the sun. the star trek movie was crap but the other two were nice. the korean movie was kind of strange and i couldn't really understand the characters and why they did the things they did. its about a small time gangster who sees a pretty young privileged girl sitting in a park one day, and instantly takes a liking for her; and when she turns him down, he arranges to put her into prostitution and watches her with the clients from behind a two-way mirror. and strangely at the end the girl chooses to stay with him inspite of all he did to her. the other movie was set in hanoi and very beautifully shot. its the tale of three sisters, two of them married - about their everyday life, their affairs (including extra-marital ones) etc. the best part of the movie was its soundtrack - the youngest sister and her brother get upto some very nice music in the morning - velvet underground's "pale blue eyes" and lou reed's (who is the lead singer of velvet underground) "coney island love" - both are among my all time personal favorites. i had forgotten about the first song till this movie reminded me of it.

well today i made wheat atta chappatis, they didn't come out like at home - don't know if its the wheat we get here or maybe i still don't know how to make it properly. anyways it was a change from eating noodles. but i kind of enjoy eating noodles, mainly because i get a chance to use chopsticks. today i put some scrambled egg in the shrimp ramen noodles and it tasted better then just plain noodles. and also think hagen-daaz's vanilla swiss almond is one of my favorite flavors of ice cream.

i don't know what i would do, or rather how i would live if i didn't have my apple powerbook, itunes and especially apple's airport express, all of which allow me to play songs wirelessly from my powerbook through my music system. the songs are the only company i have nowadays, and i keep listening to something or the other all the time through airtunes. thats the reason why i park in the living room all day and go the bedroom only when i have to sleep.

well tomorrow's monday and its back to research and the usual crap. luckily i am not taking any more stupid courses this semester. the lab will be empty for one more week, which is when my other two labmates who have gone to china now will come back. plus i am going home to india in feb, so its just a matter of less than four weeks. looking forward to this trip and sometimes i wish i didn't have to come back from there...